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The featured artists are not only suggesting that civilization may have regressed from standards once attained; they are also considering whether painting today might have a function of depicting abstracted figures of the times and how the viewer at the same time can distance oneself from the figures altogether. All the supposed fantasy and the many details would then have to be understood as a kind of defensive magic. In this way, the artists tried to keep at bay the impositions of fears and turn them into joys.

Jonas Fisch's process is instinctive and organic, the paintings energetic …